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Breaking the last bond with humanity, we live.

According to men, we live happily.

True, we knew how to subdue the power, they could not get rid of:

Selfishness, cruelty, anger.

We live, somehow, a different life.

Science and art continue to exist in our circle

but the idea of saving the world

or the search for Truth and Beauty has become less urgent.

For the human beings of the ancient race, our world looks like paradise

Sometimes quite clearly and, of course, with a touch of humour

we call ourselves "gods"

borrowing the name that made them dream too much.

If this is the age of darkness, let us live.

Say it: "I'm lost".

We're lost.

No, I told you to say: "I'm lost". It's simple.

...and it affects humans directly. It is called Bat-guano,

this plague spreads through the excrements of bats

Experts say these bats are being infected

through contact with human faeces, especially that of the homeless beggars,

as we call them, who make up almost half of the planet's population.

Estimates say almost 50 million people will be infected by the end of the year

and unfortunately it's not good news.

the chances of survival are only five in ten people.

Did you take your medicine?

Rural areas closer to the cities became intermediate zones.

The cities are being literally abandoned.

The countryside is for now he only possibility to survive

in these times known as "the suspension of the West".

Both the working classes and the rich are going through the same process

A forced de-urbanization.

Moving to the countryside, people now try to survive

this "suspension of the West", as it's been called.

Experts still do not agree if these are transition landscapes

or a new and dramatic form of town planning.

Gradually, in the intermediate zones,

communities arise and create their own laws.

Bananas are worth the same as gold.

Small industries shut down.

Multinationals relocate to the yellow continent.

Cities and businesses, especially food chains, are continuously ransacked.

Lands of rural area have the value of bananas. Better saying, gold.

Did anyone call?

What's this in your mouth?

Did you fall from your bike?

This time I took everything from Carrefour.

It was a total chaos, they ransacked everything!

He never sang again!

Well, without raining...

The superhero has arrived!

The terrible...

Elephant Man!

What are they for? Holy life!

There's no reason for us to watch that.

Let's switch.

The flag's already on the summit.

Spectacular, spectacular! Save some air to come down.

Our warmest greetings to Pablo Betancourt and Fernando Grajales, thank you!

It's all they can get.

They ignore the cosmic force and wait for a Savior.

Well done! Take care the descent, see you when you get back.

Whatever happens along the way

You know I'll always be true

As long as I have diamonds

Sheer mink coats

A White Horse and you

You may not be so handsome, young or strong

But we can do each other right

'Cause you'll have me and I'll have sex, Bloomingdales, Cartier

and a fancy horse so white.

Stop him!

No!

I am not an animal!

I am not an animal!

I am a human being!

According to the gravity law, it brings me down.

I have no concrete evidence

But, give them an opportunity to act

maybe we'll find something! concrete soon.

Let's go, Robin.

- What's the matter, huh? - I feel the rose

Aren't you tired?

No, I really feel the smell of Rose. Rose rose.

Rosie Rose. She wears Eau de Carnation! I'm feeling the scent!

And she was... here!

Do you remember those nights here, after shoots?

I could really feel the whole planet, under unbelievable signs.

pulsate inside my mouth in those eternal silences.

Then I spelled the word stalactite in your ear, remember?

You're making too much noise, why is that?

We've got supplies, we're alive! Do you understand it?

Realize this.

Go change your clothes!

Ridiculous!

This is he said to me

the greatest thing you'll ever learn

Is just to love and be loved in return

There was a boy

A very strange enchanted boy

They say he wandered very far, very far

Over land and sea

A little shy and sad of eye

But very wise was he.

And then one day

A magic day he passed my way

And while we spoke of many things

Fools and kings

This he said to me

"the greatest thing you'll ever learn

Is just to love and be lo... "the greatest thing you'll ever learn

Is just to love and be lo...

Wait, wait. Let me help you.

Wait. Slow down.

What's wrong?

I can still feel this arm itch.

Dear God! I wish I wasn't attached to it anymore...

Ooh, that's good!

- Are you relieved? - Sure!

Is it good?

Argh, no!

You were young, weren't you?

Huh? Handsome.

Look how young you're re going to be.

Seems young? huh? You're gonna be younger than that.

You look gorgeous, gorgeous.

This same attempted will be repeated for all eternity.

All this fight for a simple survival. To what purpose?

Someone told me once:

"I demand that we think less, almost nothing.

Shall we simply be mammals, that's that."

You know, they discovered three planets outside the Solar System

where life is possible.

Two of them are more than 1200 light-years away from Earth

in the Kepler-62 System.

To have an idea, a light-year equals to 6 trillion miles

travelled by light in vacuum in one year.

But all the three planets are inside the limits of the inhabitable zone

of their suns, as they provide essential conditions to existence of life

presence of atmosphere, abundance of water and appropriate temperatures.

And if you didn't exist Tell me why I should exist

To drag along in a world without you Without hope and without regret

And if you didn't exist I would try to invent love

As a painter who sees from beneath his fingers

The colours of the day being born

And who doesn't return.

And if you didn't exist Tell me for whom I should exist

Passing girls, asleep in my arms That I would never love

And if you didn't exist I wouldn't be but another dot

In this world, which comes and goes I would feel lost

I would need you

Wow, what amazing experience it is to exist!

Count Dracula never did any effort

yes, he drank blood all right, but he got his place in eternity.

Holy aristocracy, Batman!

How terrible is the mankind!

Hi?

Slow down... Hi there! Some whiskie?

Let's keep going towards our solitude.

Everything's sacred, Everything's sacred.

Remember, my boy: there's nothing natural in nature.

When it seems natural to you...

Dear God, grass is spreading all over.

Let it come inside.

What a beautiful sky!

Close...

Happy...

Don't you think that just a little piece is natural

that it could be possessed by a god?

Listen...

It doesn't matter anymore if we are surrounded by fucking randomness.

What is art compared to life?

Get this: we are alive!

Hello? Hello? Hello!

They won't call us, Robin! Frankly...

Who wants a piece of meat or a hero with a mutilated arm, as you say?

It isn't any piece of meat they want, but your piece of meat

and it has its value!

We were left in the past!

Ok, we were indeed left in the past

But, what if we keep our secret?

Batman, please!

Open the door!

Open the door!

Open the door! Open the door, now! Please!

Batmaaaan!

I can't breathe! Oh my god!

Let's go.

It's not funny! Let me go.

Batman...

Wouldn't it be better to reveal the truth now?

Batman, Batman...

Wait!

Cubicles

Areas

Warp and weft

Disarticulation of real areas

The face implodes chameleon-kaleidoscope

Slow down, slow down! Easy, easy, easy!

Hello! Hello!

Wanna party?

Let's go with us... huh, handsome?

Let's go! Whisky?

Tell me, what do you feel?

Tell me! What do you feel?

Which one do you like most? Betty Davis or Joan Crawford?

Maria Gladis!

- What month is it? - December!

Thank you. Now we are in December

and you're in this fucking stinking bathroom peeing.

Your prostate makes you pee a lot more than me.

I'm here with you, you're in this fucking stinking bathroom peeing.

The growth of you prostate makes you pee a lot more than me, certainly.

The weather is cloudy and stuffy. It seems that it's going to rain.

You walk by the books. Take a culinary book

No, an herb one. Right.

Take the herb book, look at it, go around the table

spin, now dance a little bit...

a chinese dance, maybe.

Right!

Attached to his own darkness, he seems to feel that this is all a dream

I mean, a nightmare.

With his arm he lost the energy which made him a hero worth

those spotlights, and we depended on that.

Oh yes, we depended on that.

It's been a while that we don't receive any calls.

Anyway, I can walk around selling our autographed posters and souvenirs.

After this fucking shit plague, the tourists disappeared completely.

I'm a mediocre, people say. He agrees, I'm sure.

But the survivors have to be mediocre, right?

We first met in one of those New Year's parties

party of friends, a masked ball, fine stuff.

I was taken by another friend. There were only the best.

You followed me until the bathroom, remember?

It was instantaneous.

When I went back to the living room I received an invitation

from your producer to participate once in the series and here we are.

It as a funny time, everything had a special glow.

The truth is that after the accident you became very fragile.

Indeed, you've learned how to paint with your right arm

and to make these experiments with video.

People say your work is very intensive

but it still doesn't have the proper commercial value

that a mutilation requires.

These last few days we were informed that your mutilated arm

will be auctioned in the Sotheby's, from Hong Kong.

You were very excited by the news

maybe because of the morbidity of the situation.

Then, as it was expected, you became depressed.

Nobody notices the importance of all of this.

What? Save the world?

Such a pretense to have a body, to command a nervous system

Negotiate with the members daily

Move the legs, memorize the movement, take some steps ahead.

Then, to choose what can be written in the white board

is a very difficult task.

Mutilation is something that really bothers everyone.

Specially, when we are close to it.

But it's exactly because of this is inconvenience

that the wish to spy into the edge, behind the warning sign

really close to the edge.

In a tragedy, for example, the pain isn't there in the instant that it happens

but it is in what happens after it

when we feel changed, failed, impermanent.

Do you understand that?

Oh, Boy Wonder, didn't you see what is behind the first layer yet?

Listen, there are no controversies in the backlight.

It isn't very cold now.

I love this weather.

Look there... What does it look like?

- A dumb mother. - And if it was the sun?

And if it was the sun... A one-eyed father.

We are not these hateful people that simply deny the decomposition.

It's all irremediable do you understand?

We live in a weird reality.

They put us together, we had a great time

but we were invented like the gods were. I understand this.

The difference is that we are alive.

But we are great partners!

Great partners indeed, Boy Wonder. Great partners.

Don't worry, they won't forget us easily

Of you, I'm sure they won't.

And we thought it was cool take the heart of each other.

And then we hold hands, hugged each other in tears

and after that, only after that I understood

We couldn't break apart.

We keep the heart of each other

And now, with his heart, I knew what we are going to do on Earth.

Illusion. That word eluded me. Word. Pure illusion. I knew it

But, a lonely body, needing a warm word, you know?

Then, I touched his face...

We formed the wholeness of being, of the new being in maximal evolution

and power and desire and will and expansion, and we began traveling

the universe through all the galaxies to publicize our duo

of complete punk-rock extemporizers because Earth became too small for us.

Then, pictorial, we went to Paris and Amsterdam.

In London we formed the duo of punk-rock extemporizers and spent many years there

but only in Bombay did we join our bodies in a mythical oriental

pro-xiphofagi surgery, uniting our guts and experiencing thus

the most modern mutilations, effective bodily transformations

that left the Elephant Man, Michael Jackson, Jesus Christ

and the whole bright new Huxley world in the dust,

for we had become the best agony in the whole West,

if I may say so, do you see?

I love you.

Did you film it today?

It's very good.

It's possible to see the darkness inside you.

And look at the camera.

Very good, look at that, look at that!

It looks like a broken toy.

Mutilated.

An old Batgirl.

There may be troubles ahead

But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance

Let's face the music and dance

Before the fiddlers have fled

Before they ask us to pay the bill and while we still have the chance

Let's face the music and dance

Soon we'll be without the moon, humming a different tune and then

There may be teardrops to shed

So while there's moonlight and music and love and romance

Let's face the music and dance

Let's face the music and dance

Robin!

Your feet separated from the body,

your legs separated from the thorax,

your arms apart from your hands,

your face on the floor on the dust, dark, dark.

In your dark skin, everything so dark.

Your feet in the darkness with the dust.

The dust weights like lead.

The dust goes into the skin, I taste it in my mouth.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive our trespasses

as we forgive those whose trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Oh my Lord, we exist in this strange universe of yours.

For how long will we be walking at random?

Are we lost?

If You took my arm before just for fun

I'll let You to take the other one and I beg You, in exchange,

to bring time back, so everything would become like a few minutes ago

when Robin was alive.

I beg You my Lord, I beg! Let Robin live!

In my last patrol I was alone. Remember?

I fucking missed you a lot, especially at top speed,

especially in that moment which left me like this...

lost, with my legs wandering in the poisoned desert of cartoons and TV's.

That day I felt, I realized that everything could exist in my absence.

But also realized that everything could not exist.

I don't want to stay without you, my boy.

No, no!

I expected more from you, Batman!

Why didn't you answer me?

Dear God, who are we?

Hello! Uhum.

Yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Uhum.

Look, Batman, it's them!

Yes, yes. It's amazing!

It's the owner of Paramount Pictures in Hong Kong!

Yes, yes. Of course, of course

They just auctioned your arm for 3 million!

Right, right. Of course!

Pardon me?

They're offering twice the price!

Subtitles ripped by gooz

Dedicated to Ney Matogrosso

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to

And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you

If you want a partner Take my hand

Or if you want to strike me down in anger

Here I stand

I'm your man

If you want a boxer I will step into the ring for you

And if you want a doctor I'll examine every inch of you

If you want a driver Climb inside

Or if you want to take me for a ride

You know you can

I'm your man

Ah, the moon's too bright The chain's too tight

The beast won't go to sleep

I've been running through these promises to you